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PegaProx 0.9.x is an AGPL-3.0 panel that manages several Proxmox VE 8 and 9 clusters, plus XCP-ng, from a single screen. It adds live migration across clusters, OIDC with Entra ID, a CVE scanner and one-click hardening on top of the stock GUI, which only covers one cluster at a time.
Coolify is a self-hosted deployment platform that runs on top of Docker: it manages Git applications, databases, and SSL certificates from its own web panel. It installs with an official script that brings up Docker and the Coolify containers in 2 to 5 minutes on Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 13, with no additional manual steps.
You install Portainer with Docker Compose by writing a single compose.yaml file and running two commands. Portainer CE 2.40 STS supports Docker Compose v2 natively, enables HTTPS on port 9443 out of the box, and manages Docker Engine, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI from one panel. It runs on Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 13.
The Model Context Protocol has gone from proposal to de facto standard for connecting editors with external tools. This practical guide walks through standing up a local MCP server, wiring it into VS Code or your client of choice, and understanding exactly what you are exposing.
Uptime Kuma installs with Docker Compose in about ten minutes: define a service with the official louislam/uptime-kuma image, a persistent volume at /app/data and port 3001, bring the container up with docker compose up -d, then create the admin user on first access from the browser.
restic is the encrypted, deduplicated, incremental backup tool I run in production on several servers. A practical guide to installing it on Debian, setting up an S3-compatible repository, automating daily backups with systemd, and verifying that restore actually works before you need it.
n8n is the low-code automation project that has best adapted to self-hosting. A walk through the real install with Docker Compose, the database and queue decisions to make, and the points where most people trip up the first time.
An Authentik Docker Compose install now needs only three containers: PostgreSQL, the server and the worker, since Redis stopped being mandatory in version 2025.10. Once running, it acts as your identity provider for single sign-on over OAuth2, OIDC, SAML and LDAP, and a reverse proxy such as Traefik can delegate authentication to it through forward auth.
Generics arrived in Go in March 2022 with high expectations and some skepticism. Three years on, idiomatic code barely uses them on the surface, but they have transformed deep libraries: type-safe collections, database clients, concurrency primitives. This analysis examines what has taken hold and why.
JuiceFS is a distributed, POSIX-compliant file system that separates data, stored in an S3-compatible object store, from metadata, stored in a database such as PostgreSQL or Redis. This guide installs JuiceFS on a three-node Linux cluster to share files without relying on NFS.
Installing Ollama on an Apple Silicon Mac is as simple as running one Homebrew command. Then pick a model based on available RAM (Phi-3 for 8 GB, Llama 3.1 8B for 16 GB) and expose the local, OpenAI-compatible HTTP API on port 11434 to plug it into your own applications.
CrowdSec replaces fail2ban by separating detection (agent plus LAPI) from blocking (bouncers): install the agent with the official script on Debian or Ubuntu, enable the right collections, add a bouncer for Traefik or the firewall, and optionally captcha remediation via Cloudflare Turnstile plus the shared community blocklist.
Traefik is the default reverse proxy for Docker Swarm: automatic service discovery via labels, Let's Encrypt certificates with DNS challenge, and reusable middleware chains. This guide covers the overlay network, static and dynamic configuration, certificate storage for multi-manager setups, and the production decisions that actually matter.
This guide installs PostgreSQL 16 with pgvector on Debian or Ubuntu using the official PGDG repository, creates a dedicated role and database, tunes memory for production, and explains when the HNSW index beats IVFFlat depending on vector volume and the available maintenance window.
Installing Docker on Debian 12 means replacing the Debian docker.io package with the official repository: import the GPG key into /etc/apt/keyrings, install the five packages docker-ce, docker-ce-cli, containerd.io, docker-buildx-plugin and docker-compose-plugin, then set log rotation and live-restore in daemon.json before exposing the server to production.
Ollama makes it trivial to run models like Llama 2 or Mistral on your own computer: one binary, one command, and quantised weights downloading to disk with no compilation required. Covers installation on macOS, Linux, and Windows with an honest look at what local inference can and cannot do compared to frontier models.
To install Docker on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, add Docker's official repository instead of using Ubuntu's packages, then install Docker Engine: the dockerd daemon, the command-line client, and the Compose and Buildx plugins. The repository line needs a GPG key stored under /etc/apt/keyrings, because apt-key add is retired on 24.04, and it carries the noble codename from /etc/os-release.
Traefik is a reverse proxy that automatically discovers Docker containers through labels and renews TLS certificates via Let's Encrypt without manual work. To install it with Docker Compose, define its static configuration in traefik.yml, generate basic-auth credentials for the dashboard, and start the container connected to a dedicated Docker network.
Docker Compose is Docker's official tool for defining and running multi-container applications with a YAML file: one command spins up every service, network, and volume it describes. On Ubuntu 20.04 it is installed by downloading the standalone binary from GitHub, though Docker recommends moving to the v2 CLI plugin, since v1 is no longer maintained.
To install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04, add Docker's own repository (not Ubuntu's, which tends to lag behind), import its GPG key, install the docker-ce package, and add your user to the docker group so you can run containers without sudo. Running docker run hello-world at the end confirms the daemon works.
